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Noun: Commonwealth of Independent States
  1. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
    - CIS

Type of: global organisation [Brit], global organization, international organisation [Brit], international organization, world organisation [Brit], world organization

Encyclopedia: Commonwealth of Independent States